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Old October 28th 05, 05:34 AM
jt3
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Default Any Tapi/Dun/Modem Experts Question

I looked through both my steno pads but couldn't find any notes on the modem
installation.

I will e-mail my daughter, since I think she kept the modem to put on her
new XP machine, and she *may* have kept the notes I wrote up for her at the
time, but I wouldn't bet on it. She only keeps stuff she can leave here
with us, otherwise travels light-- I will look on some of the backup CDs I
wrote at that time, and see what I can find.

Note that glee has given a very good summation of the problem:
. Between that and the links he
provided, you'll probably get a clearer picture than I can provide, but I'll
look and see.

Good Luck,
Joe


"nonewbie" wrote in message
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I am grateful for ANY help.
Several people other than myself have posted on this same problem and
I have not seen ANY definitive answers on it. I already tried
deinstalling under add/remove the enumerator and then removing the modem
and ports, nothing seems to work. I think this is a registry problem,
but there is nothing in the MS KB about it and they say to remove all
references to the winmodem in the registry, but they do not tell you
where they are, nor how to remove them except for 3com modems that have
a special program.

"jt3" wrote in
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Sorry about the vagueness, but as I said, it's been a while.

As well as I can recall, which is not very well, you end up with two
different things installed if you try the directions/std install. I
tried many different permutations of install, and could easily be
mixing them up now. Uninstalling the modem doesn't uninstall the
enumerator, I believe; you must uninstall that explicitly in
Add/Remove. I believe that it was important to get all of the stuff
uninstalled to get it right finally.

I have an old notebook I used at the time and may have some notes on
it--will see if I can find it and get back. That is, if you want it.
I'm no professional, and don't claim to know what I'm doing. It's
mostly empirical, just as for virtually everyone else here, and if you
can't handle that, then I'll be of no use to you.

Joe
"nonewbie" wrote in message
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Thanks, not sure I know (or you do) what you mean.

If I install the latest driver package that IS the enumerator, it
automatically installs the modem on the OS. So, how can you install
the enumerator without installing the modem?? In fact, I did install
the enumbetor/driver package prior to letting windows try it's
install as I recall.

Also nobody has said anything about what exactly the bios settings
should be on this install. Some say to disable the irqs for the
modem; which I'm guessing is "reserved" under my bios. I think I may
have tried it both ways. The problem appears to be a windows screw up
in the registry and windows is confused again. There have been
numerous posts on this problem from different individuals (google it)
and no one has explained how this install process works, what the
interaction with tapi is and what to do about it.

Also does anyone know what the effect of removing unimdm.tsk from the
control panel will do on this system? Is it possible to reinstall it
without reinstalling the whole OS if I try removing it?

Maybe MS wants me to call in any pay for tech support so they don't
give the real answers to this problem :-(.


"jt3" wrote in
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I hesitate to say much when it's so fuzzy in my memory--these days
2 years blanks me out pretty badly--but my daughter's Dell had the
same problem (same modem) and as I recall after thrashing with it
for the better part of a month, I finally decided that the problem
seems to occur as a result of the modem being detected and an
install attempted before the Conexant enumerator is installed.

When they get installed in the wrong order, it does just what you
described.

I *think* I uninstalled the mess and tried again (one of many
retries), not allowing the modem to install initially, and then
when the enumerator gets installed (I forget what it's called--HCF
Modem or some such) you can let it install the modem.

It worked well enough that when I had to reinstall it the next year
she was back from college, that I was able to do it with only a
little fumbling around. She isn't here, and no longer has the
machine anyway, or I'd check it out.

Hope this is of some use.



Joe
"nonewbie" wrote in message
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cannot get dun to work with aztech mdp3880-w(u) modem.

installed latest drivers, install went fine. "more info" reported
info from the modem.

When I try to dialout using dun i get : "error 633- modem is not
installed or configured for dialup, double click on the modems
icon in control panel"

When I do the above, it tries to reinstall the modem drivers,even
though they have already been installed.

Tried on of MS's solutions and rebuilt telephon.ini, still no go.
Also did their registry fix for telephon.ini

tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers and modem still no
problem. Modem now assigned to com3 IRQ 10

in my Dell dimension bios, there is a section for all the irqs
where u set it to either available or reserved, but I was told
that this is only for non-plug and pray modems and I got a message
from windows saying this is plug and pray modem. IRQ is currently
marked available in bios.